What Mountaineering Accidents Can Teach Us About Food Preservation

August 30, 2012

Would you eat pickles made by these two? Each year the American Alpine Club publishes a book detailing all the mountaineering accidents in North America. The club’s goal is simple, as they put it, “to help you learn from the mistakes of others.” I’ve often thought that the same approach should be applied to many of the activities we love in the homesteading movement, especially food preservation. Now, I think t...

Grassfed Turkey Cooking Tips from Shannon Hayes

Mr. Homegrown

November 16, 2011

Food, Recipes

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Thinking of cooking a grass-fed turkey for Thanksgiving? Just in time for the holidays, grassfed cooking expert and farmer Shannon Hayes has a blog post with pastured turkey cooking and purchasing tips that you can read on her blog grassfedcooking.com. We’re honored to have been included in Shannon’s book Radical Homemakers . One of her most important tips is to know what you are buying, “If you don’t personally know the farme...

The Art of Memory

Mr. Homegrown

December 20, 2011

Thoughtstylings

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...ty that exercises creative visualization. It’s a tool that Renaissance mages such as Giordano Bruno and Giulio Camillo used to initiate the shift in consciousness that gave birth to the Renaissance. Francis Yates’ book The Art of Memory describes the role memory techniques played in this shift. The revolution in thought launched by Bruno and Camillo gave us the wonders of Western science and, ironically, the iPhones that have externa...

Passport to Survival

Mr. Homegrown

January 10, 2010

Preparedness, Reviews

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One of the dusty corners of the Homegrown Evolution reference library holds two examples of a book genre I always look out for: the Mormon survival manual. As far as I can tell, these tomes assume we’re, “in the last days,” a period for which the Latter Day Saints hierarchy suggests keeping a two year supply of food for your household. Having just seen the grim Cormac McCarthy/Viggo Mortensen vehicle “The Road” and...

Learn How to Compost Via the Humanure Handbook

Mr. Homegrown

October 27, 2010

Composting, Gardening, Humanure, Reviews

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Composting ain’t rocket science but it does require some finesse. Following up on an earlier post which contained a comparison of different composters, I thought I’d mention my favorite written resource on how to compost. In my opinion, the best writing on the subject comes from a surprising source, the Humanure Handbook by Joeseph Jenkins. Best of all, an edition of this book is available online for free. Even if you have no intenti...

Mandrake!

Mr. Homegrown

July 3, 2007

Fermentation, Food

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Homegrown Revolution chanced upon an amazing book at the library, Stephen Harrod Buhner’s Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers that has inspired ambitious plans of a fall and winter season of beer making (things are too little too hot around right now for fermentation). What separates Buhner’s book from both the geeked-out world of middle-aged home brew aficionados on the one side and the Budweiser frogs on the down-market other is his e...

Animal Tracking

Mrs. Homegrown

June 15, 2011

Animals, Preparedness, Resources

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...to protect your garden. For instance, you could look up advice from your local Integrated Pest Management program, like the one offered by the University of California. Note: If you’re in the market for a good tracking book, I can recommend the book we used in class, The Tracker’s Field Guide , written by one of the teachers....

Building a Makeshift Treadmill Desk

Mr. Homegrown

December 20, 2012

Fitness

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...s . . . I’m the author of the novel Place Last Seen (Picador USA, 2000), and have been blogging at Livingsmallblog.com since 2002. I’ve written for Culinate.com, Ethicurean.com and have a cookbook review column at Bookslut.com. I’ve been published in the Best Food Writing of 2010, and am currently working on a book proposal for a nonfiction book about finding and building a home saw me through and got me past some devastating pe...

December Homegrown Evolution Events

Mr. Homegrown

December 8, 2008

Events

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Bread Making If you’re in the Southern California area, come on down to Good Magazine’s splashy digs for a bread making demo we’ll be doing on Monday December 15th at 12:30 p.m. We’ll be showing how to bake our favorite wild yeast bread (in our book and on our website here). Come at 11:30 a.m. and catch our organic gardening pals at Silver Lake Farms do a talk on winter vegetable crops. Stick around for puppets! Good Mag...

Home Baked Bread in Five Minutes

Mr. Homegrown

December 24, 2008

Bread, Food

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If you’ve bought our book, followed this blog, or gone to one our workshops you’ll know that we tout a wild yeast bread recipe adapted from Nancy Silverton’s La Brea Bakery method. We contend that our delicious recipe can be worked into all but the most crazed work schedule. But our recipe does rely on equipment and tools, specifically a heavy duty mixer and a wooden bread form. This month’s issue of Mother Earth News has...

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Learn How to Compost Via the Humanure Handbook

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Building a Makeshift Treadmill Desk

December Homegrown Evolution Events

Home Baked Bread in Five Minutes